The promise of the metaverse extends far beyond digital spaces -- it can transform and enrich how we experience the material world, too. From video games that bring communities together to digital art that collides with physical spaces, augmented reality designer Sutu shares some of the incredible creativity that's sparked by AR metaverse techno...

What happens when a black man visits Aspen? Singer/songwriter Stew and his band are about to let you know.

Imagine being able to see artwork in the greatest museums around the world without leaving your chair. Driven by his passion for art, Amit Sood tells the story of how he developed Art Project to let people do just that.

What does a cultural Big Bang look like? For Amit Sood, director of Google's Cultural Institute and Art Project, it's an online platform where anyone can explore the world's greatest collections of art and artifacts in vivid, lifelike detail. Join Sood and Google artist in residence Cyril Diagne in a mind-bending demo of experiments from the Cul...

eL Seed fuses Arabic calligraphy with graffiti to paint colorful, swirling messages of hope and peace on buildings from Tunisia to Paris. The artist and TED Fellow shares the story of his most ambitious project yet: a mural painted across 50 buildings in Manshiyat Naser, a district of Cairo, Egypt, that can only be fully seen from a nearby mount...

What does this gorgeous street art say? It's Arabic poetry, inspired by bold graffiti and placed where a message of hope and peace can do the most good. In this quietly passionate talk, artist and TED Fellow eL Seed describes his ambition: to create art so beautiful it needs no translation.

When you collapse in front of the TV after a long day, do you always end up watching the same few shows and movies the algorithm serves up to everyone? If so, engineer and movie enthusiast Sid Thatham believes you're missing out. Thatham lays out the myriad potential rewards for diversifying your streaming habits and venturing into unexplored co...

The 40 or so muscles in the human face can be activated in different combinations to create thousands of expressions. But do these expressions look the same and communicate the same meaning around the world regardless of culture? Is one person's smile another's grimace? Sophie Zadeh investigates. [TED-Ed Animation by Estúdio Bacuri]

From Beyoncé to Drake and beyond, the world is rocking to the rhythm of Afrobeat. Feel the music as Kenyan afro-pop superstars Sauti Sol take the TED stage to perform three songs: "Live and Die in Afrika," "Sura Yako" and "Kuliko Jana."

Scientist Saad Bhamla is on a mission to answer a question most people don't think to ask: How do insects pee? Taking inspiration from the incredible "butt flickers" of the glassy-winged sharpshooter, Bhamla presents a fascinating study of the physics behind how bugs take care of business and invites us to be more curious about the seemingly mun...

Along with a crew of technologists and scientists, Jorge Soto is developing a simple, noninvasive, open-source test that looks for early signs of multiple forms of cancer. Onstage at TEDGlobal 2014, he demonstrates a working prototype of the mobile platform for the first time.

In this passionate talk, diversity trainer and activist Fahad Saeed addresses the persistent myth that inclusive language and acronyms create more barriers than they tear down. Sharing his own experiences as a gay Muslim man born to immigrant parents, he explains how redefining the constructs around personal identity can have positive repercussi...

Why do people succeed? Is it because they're smart? Or are they just lucky? Neither. Analyst Richard St. John condenses years of interviews into an unmissable 3-minute slideshow on the real secrets of success.

The longer that someone provides care — whether for a partner, family member or stranger — the more likely they are to experience negative mental and physical health themselves. In this moving talk, pediatric nurse Hui-wen Sato describes how her approach to caregiving was transformed once she figured out way to reappropriate her grief to better ...

Physicist Werner Heisenberg said, "When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first." As difficult as turbulence is to understand mathematically, we can use art to depict the way it looks. Natalya St. Clair illustrates how Van Gogh captured this deep m...

Consider the following sentence: "This statement is false." Is that true? If so, that would make the statement false. But if it's false, then the statement is true. This sentence creates an unsolvable paradox; if it's not true and it's not false– what is it? This question led a logician to a discovery that would change mathematics forever. Marcu...

In his typically candid style, Richard St. John reminds us that success is not a one-way street, but a constant journey. He uses the story of his business' rise and fall to illustrate a valuable lesson -- when we stop trying, we fail.

The world turns on symmetry -- from the spin of subatomic particles to the dizzying beauty of an arabesque. But there's more to it than meets the eye. Here, Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy offers a glimpse of the invisible numbers that marry all symmetrical objects.

Money for international development rarely makes it to the people it intends to help, says Faisal Saeed Al Mutar, the founder of Ideas Beyond Borders. Highlighting the inefficiencies of the current system, he proposes a new model for aid that functions like business investments, empowering local entrepreneurs with money to build their communitie...

Using found materials and mesmerizing structures that unearth deep-rooted emotions, Wangechi Mutu's visual creations celebrate our collective history and explore how art communicates into the future. From ancient rock carvings in the Sahel to her own chimeric abstractions, she shares her journey of self-discovery and reminds us all that we alrea...

In a constantly changing world, it's impossible for leaders to provide employees with the assurance they want, says Vimeo CEO Anjali Sud. Her solution: lead with humanity and flexibility. In conversation with veteran journalist Stephanie Mehta, Sud discusses her experience connecting remote employees worldwide, addressing burnout and adapting co...

For one hundred days in 1994, the African country of Rwanda suffered a horrific campaign of mass murder. Neighbor turned against neighbor as violence engulfed the region, resulting in the deaths of over one-tenth of the country's population. How did this happen? And why didn't international organizations intervene? Susanne Buckley-Zistel digs in...

Poetry can affect all generations, which can encourage people to think about everything from love to sorrow. Poetry truly does what little else can: it can move people. You gain insight into the poet's thoughts, ideas, loves, and hates as they speak directly and personally to you as the reader.

Dania has been learning to play music for one year, Deema for four years. They're both diagnosed with Down's syndrome and are a proof that music transcends disabilities.

Sayyida Mayya share her story highlighting the fact everyone is responsible for the choices they make in life. The thing about life is that it’s not easy nor is it meant to be. But that shouldn't stop everyone from living it the way each one wants to. Change is inevitable and happens to all of everyone . Choices is something all have but ...

Hayato is studying French literature at Tohoku University and Fumito is studying Arabic and history at Waseda University. They regard the present day as the age of “absurdity” in which established ideas or institutions are collapsing and people are losing the meaning of their life. They strongly believe that we humans must resist the “absurdity”...

She was talking about the consequences and problems that she had been exposed to throughout her life due to the genetic error that caused changes in the appearance of the face and voice. And how she was able to overcome all these consequences and become a source of inspiration for many young people to get rid of psychological problems, until s...

Why is there something the game can do without reading much of the instructions? Why can you enjoy the game easily? It is the theory of this feature of the game, this is the theory of GAME-NICS. How can we apply it to the world?

Yoga Öğretmeni 1981 de Ankara’da doğdum. 1987 yılında başlayan kendini tanıma serüvenim, 2000 yılından itibaren Bilkent Üniversitesi ve Sports İnternational’da vermeye başladığım spor ve yoga dersleri sayesinde başkalarının da kendilerini tanımalarına vesile olmakla devam ediyor.Çeşitli eğitimler aldım fakat en iyi öğretmenin insanın kendi için...

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